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DC - Beulah Limerick, 19, Washington DC, 31 Dec 1930

Beulah Limerick was Secretary of the Ski High Whoopee Club of Washington DC, a group of young men and women who loved to party until dawn in the Age of Jazz.

One morning in December, 1930, Beulah returned home with a young man at 1 AM.

By 2 AM, according to Beulah's brother Vernon, Beula went to bed in a downstairs room.

At 4 AM, a Washington Metropolitan Police officer, who often kept an eye on Beulah, flashed his light inside her home and saw her lying in bed, apparently asleep.

At 6 AM, a border in the Limerick home, Richard Reed came down the stairs and saw Beulah in bed, thinking that she was sleeping.

At 8 AM, Vernon Limerick tried to wake his sister and found her to be dead. He stated later that he had thought she had died a natural death. A Doctor (a young intern) was called to the house and he declared her to have died a natural death from internal hemmorhage.

It wasn't until later that evening, at a local funeral home, that it was discovered Beulah Limerick had been murdered. She had been shot in the back of the head and a flattened .25 caliber pistol bullet was recovered.

Time of death was estimated to have occurred at 3AM. After death, her face had been roughed, the bloodstains washed away, and her black hair had been snugly tucked into the the small wound at the base of her brain.

Beulah had kept a diary in which she hinted at numerous affairs and contacts which gave investigators a lot of potential suspects. Eventually, detectives focussed on Vernon Limerick, Richard Reed, and the policeman on the beat as suspects. The young man she had arrived home with was cleared.

In 1938, charges of murder were brought against the Washington Metropolitan police officer who had shone his flashlight into the Limerick home that night. He was acquitted and the case remains unsolved.